The Republika Srpska (RS) entity’s President Milorad Dodik expects the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who oversees the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement which ended the war in Bosnia, Valentin Inzko to announce inaccurate information at the session of the UN Security Council next week.
“Inzko will invent stories again and submit inaccurate information instead of addressing the secret armaments that are being done in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) entity. The statements of the Democratic Action Party’s (SDA) Leader Bakir Izetbegovic and FBiH Prime Minister Fadil Novalic in this regard are unambiguously clear and point to the fact that they are stockpiling arms in secret warehouses,” Dodik said in Banja Luka after meeting with the RS Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic, and ministers in RS and Bosnian governments.
Dodik recalled that RS’ request was for entity governments to establish a joint commission to establish the truth about this issue, and that RS is ready for this commission to review all the locations in RS, but that there is no reaction to such a proposal.
“Some day ago, I reiterated that we are ready to make it even into an international commission that will include both Serbia and Russia, that it can include the EU countries and even the US with its local representatives, but there was no response to this,” he said.
Dodik’s statements come after the Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency Chairman Izetbegovic said, recently that Bosnia won’t waste its money on buying rocket systems and fighter planes but rather rely on its own arms industry which will produce arms for export but also for “the God forbid cases.”
Dodik also stressed that – “according to the available media reports, it is clear that Inzko will not speak about this in his report to the UN Security Council” and that he “is trying to blame all the lies and the responsibility to RS.”
According to Dodik, RS is not a participant in any talks regarding the Bosnian Election Law changes.
“Somebody created this situation intentionally where RS representatives are not taking part in the talks, as we are allegedly not concerned with the constituency of peoples in FBiH,” Dodik said.
He states that the meetings on amendments to Bosnia’s Election Law are held in the form of two ambassadors – the US Ambassador and the Head of the EU Delegation to Bosnia, with representatives of political parties from FBiH, although the House of Peoples of FBiH is of interest to RS.
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court issued a verdict two years ago, deleting several articles from the Election Law due to unequal representation of peoples in the House of Peoples of FBiH.
